Philosopher

The highest form of vanity is love of fame.

I like to walk about among the beautiful things that adorn the world; but private wealth I should decline, or any sort of personal possessions, because they would take away my liberty.

America is a young country with an old mentality.

Depression is rage spread thin.

Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

It is always pleasant to be urged to do something on the ground that one can do it well.

My atheism, like that of Spinoza, is true piety towards the universe and denies only gods fashioned by men in their own image, to be servants of their human interests.

The Bible is literature, not dogma.

Mereka yang tidak mengambil pelajaran dari sejarah, maka mereka ditakdirkan untuk mengulanginya.

Skepticism, like chastity, should not be relinquished too readily.

Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

Ibarat mesin, raga manusia hanyalah instrumen, pikiranlah yang mengendalikan seluruh sistem operasinya.

Hidup bukanlah tontonan atau pesta; itu adalah masalah.

Many possessions, if they do not make a man better, are at least expected to make his children happier; and this pathetic hope is behind many exertions.

The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.

The spirit's foe in man has not been simplicity, but sophistication.

Friends are generally of the same sex, for when men and women agree, it is only in the conclusions; their reasons are always different.

Sanity is madness put to good use.

The philosophy of the common man is an old wife that gives him no pleasure, yet he cannot live without her, and resents any aspersions that strangers may cast on her character.

Do not have evil-doers for friends, do not have low people for friends: have virtuous people for friends, have for friends the best of men.